Nationally renowned Alice Springs based artist Wayne Eager is set to exhibit at the Araluen Arts Centre after a 14 year hiatus.
Araluen
Cultural Precinct director Tim Rollason said Desert Works is an exhibition of Eager’s paintings and works on
paper, encompassing both new and early works.
“Wayne
Eager has exhibited intensively throughout his career and we are proud to be
hosting his Desert Works exhibition,”
Mr Rollason said.
“His
paintings are a series of layered gestural marks, shapes and colours that
interweave and culminate in a defined space.
“These
compositions represent his response to living and working in the Central
Desert.
“A
founding member of the expressionistic and acclaimed ROAR Studios collective in
Melbourne during the 1980s, Eager’s urban views were exchanged over 20 years
ago for remote and geological ones, when he moved to Haasts Bluff, and
subsequently to Alice Springs.
“His
current studio looks out onto one of Alice Springs’ many rocky outcrops and his
daily walks into the local hills of quartz and mica, interspersed with
vegetation, provide an inspiration for the matrix of colour, line and abstract
shapes that define his artworks.
“Desert Works include more than 25 works
including his 2014 gouache on paper, Northside
Rocks.”
Eager’s
work is represented in major Australian public and private collections
including the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney, Artbank, Ballarat Regional Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery, the Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Araluen Arts Centre, the Myer
Roar Collection, the Smorgan Collection, the Coventry Collection, as well as
the Charles Darwin University Art Collection.
Desert Works opens to the public
from 10am Friday 22 May and ends on Sunday 28 June 2015.
Ends
Media note – for more information / interview contact Tim Rollason on 89511126 or Wayne Eager (via Marina Strocchi) on 0417546003 or marinastrocchi@bigpond.com
Image: Northside
Rocks, 2014, gouache on paper, 25 x 28cm. Collection of the artist
